tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post115707629454122851..comments2018-02-20T16:49:39.559-05:00Comments on Mayerson on Animation: Bar Sheets and MetronomesMark Mayersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1164909896541548612006-11-30T13:04:00.000-05:002006-11-30T13:04:00.000-05:00Thank you! this is exactly what i was looking for...Thank you! this is exactly what i was looking for.<BR/><BR/>most of the posts on other sites have really helpful bar sheets but they almost make it appear as someone goes through the entire sheet music trying to figure out the timing and where measures start. it makes so much more sense to use a pre determined speed with a set number of frames between beats.<BR/><BR/>I kept doing the math of beats per minute and trying to figure it out by frames and wasn't sure how it was all handled, since all i'd ever been shown in the past were bar sheets next to waveforms. "you don't need an exposure sheet use this," what? ohh college...now it finally makes sense, and i feel like i can confidently plot these things out on an exposure sheet! this has been invaluable! thanks!:: smo ::https://www.blogger.com/profile/02948005244845740011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1157179927724254432006-09-02T02:52:00.000-04:002006-09-02T02:52:00.000-04:00Fascinating. I found this post from Kevin's blog a...Fascinating. I found this post from Kevin's blog and now I'm definitely going to visit your blog again! :)Brett W. Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12922714873314044947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1157152970179930832006-09-01T19:22:00.000-04:002006-09-01T19:22:00.000-04:00Back about 20 years ago I had my sights set upon p...<I>Back about 20 years ago I had my sights set upon pursuing animation as a career.</I><BR/><BR/>Correction: Make that <B>25</B> years ago. I think I just proved my point!Pete Emsliehttp://members.shaw.ca/petemslie/index.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1157152421539511642006-09-01T19:13:00.000-04:002006-09-01T19:13:00.000-04:00Back about 20 years ago I had my sights set upon p...Back about 20 years ago I had my sights set upon pursuing animation as a career. Perhaps fortunately for me, I ended up slightly sidetracked, instead following the path of being a print cartoonist. (Likely due to my huge interest in MAD Magazine guys like Jack Davis, Paul Coker Jr. and Mort Drucker at the time, as well as my lifelong love of Walt Kelly's "Pogo").<BR/><BR/>Admittedly, when I read stuff like this my eyes just glaze over trying to figure it all out. Though I believe the intuitive side of animation would have appealed to me, (ie: getting the performance up there on the screen,) I always had major reservations about the mathematical side of the craft. Working out the logistics of where a character has to be in a certain number of frames, figuring out the timing of a character's walk cycle with a stopwatch, etc. - all of these numerical problems seemed very daunting to a complete "right-brainer" like myself. I reckon I probably made the correct career choice after all!Pete Emsliehttp://members.shaw.ca/petemslie/index.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1157125686413825212006-09-01T11:48:00.000-04:002006-09-01T11:48:00.000-04:00Thanks for the topic Mark. I recall Shamus Culhane...Thanks for the topic Mark. I recall Shamus Culhane telling me when cartoons went to sound they used to print the musical notes right on the side of the exposure sheet. He was given a quick promotion to animator because he could read music. He never ceased to thank his mother for forcing him to take violin lessons.Tom Sitohttp://www.tomsito.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1157121421939175062006-09-01T10:37:00.000-04:002006-09-01T10:37:00.000-04:00Heh heh ... timely post (no pun intended). I'm in ...Heh heh ... timely post (no pun intended). I'm in the midst of directing an opener for our series and it centres around fast-paced music. I knew barsheets were the way to go & it has helped so much. Thanks for the links to those other barsheet examples. Wonderful stuff!<BR/><BR/>And I will emphasize to all animators ... get a stopwatch and metronome! They should be part of your standard toolkit.rdmsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-1157077971549533472006-08-31T22:32:00.000-04:002006-08-31T22:32:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting on this subject Mark. The relat...Thanks for posting on this subject Mark. The relationship between frames per beat and beats per minute is going to be a lot of help to me in learning to time to music. <BR/><BR/><I>With computers, there's a tendency to do a bunch of board panels or poses and start sliding them around on a timeline to determine pacing. I don't know if people who do that develop a sense of timing, as they have to see the result before they know if it works.</I><BR/><BR/>This is exactly what I wanted to get away from. In my ongoing struggle to learn to animate I tended to do exactly this, moving key poses around the timeline. The beat of the music was thrown out the window and pace and rhythm was just lost.Kevin Langleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07623675845502307848noreply@blogger.com